From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 11:30:21 MDT
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Why is that a nonproblem?
>
> Even if the worst happens, and the Antarctic melts (not exactly overnight,
> though, last time it happened it took 0.5 kYears), and the sea level goes
> up by 20-something meters, and even if there's a frigging climate flip,
> putting further heavy casualties amongst reinsurers, this is not something
> which will even hurt us badly. And energy production landscape *will* look
Sea level going up by 20-something meters will lose us much
current coastal real-estate. Look at how many major cities that
involves and then tell me their loss will not hurt us much.
Also, we are talking potential thermal run-away here, not simply
changes to coastline. And there is the small additional
problem of the ozone layer holes getting bad enough to dose us
with (more) unhealthy levels of UV. This things are not
something I think we can screw around with because we think it
will not "even hurt us badly".
- samantha
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